Visualizing Palestine unites activism and entrepreneurship

In 2009, Ramzi Jaber quit his job as a civil engineer in Jerusalem to organize TEDxRamallah. Upon moving to Ramallah to begin work on the conference, Jaber says he was “floored at my own ignorance [of people’s struggles in the West Bank]” especially in light of the huge amount of data that was available. “If even I [as a Palestinian] didn’t know the story of the Palestinians,” he asks, “why should foreigners, why should anyone know it?”  Visualizing Palestine, the hybrid startup and non-profit he went…

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Visualizing Palestine unites activism and entrepreneurship

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